Voters just did something no U.S. city has ever done to stop AI data centers

Voters in one Los Angeles suburb just overwhelmingly rejected the development of data centers in their area—for good. In the latest sign that Americans are souring on artificial intelligence, in a special municipal election on June 2 the residents of Monterey Park, California, voted in favor of a permanent ban on data centers in their community. While other cities have voted to limit or pause new construction of data centers, Monterey Park is the first to vote to block data centers in perpetu...